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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe I'm somebody else.

I like fucking with your emotions, and I like it when it's done to me. That's my thing. You're gonna laugh, you're gonna laugh, you're gonna laugh, until you're gonna stop laughing. You're gonna stop laughing, you're gonna stop laughing, you're gonna stop laughing until boom you're gonna laugh again. The audience and the director, it's an S&M relationship and the audience is the M. It's exciting. When you go out and have pie afterwards, you've got some shit to talk about. You went to the movies that night.

I have no advice to give to young actors. To young, struggling actresses, my advice is to keep struggling. If you struggle long enough, you will never get in trouble and if you never get in trouble, you will never be much of an actress.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

At the risk of disillusionment, I must admit I don't like top hats, white ties and tails.

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

A film is a petrifying fountain of thought. A film revives lifeless deeds. A film permits one to give the appearance of reality to that which is unreal.

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

A film is like a piece of steak and can also contain anger.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.